Nursing home staffing mandate ‘unrealistic,’ advocacy groups say
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 23, 2022
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) and 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East President George Gresham continued their call Monday for tougher staffing mandates among the state’s nursing homes...
Annual nursing home, home healthcare spending more than double the recent rate of healthcare overall
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 25, 2022
Nursing home spending has increased 10.2% year over year; home healthcare, by 10.5%. released Friday. That’s nearly double the overall national health spending rate, which grew in August 2022 by 4.9%,...
‘Nothing less than a crisis’ as 45 percent of SNFs cite serious financial issues in AHCA survey
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 06, 2024
Forty-five percent of skilled nursing facility participants in a new survey said they are “either operating in the red or barely breaking even.”
SNF operators to continue to see profit margins shrink: report
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 23, 2023
Skilled nursing facilities operators should expect their profit margins to continue to shrink over the next four years, even as other segments of long-term care see modest gains. That’s according to...
Bill aims to privatize annual nursing home, assisted living inspections
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 08, 2023
Proposed legislation before the Arizona Legislature, if passed, would privatize annual inspections of skilled nursing facilities and assisted living communities by creating a third-party entity to make...
New monetary penalties for SNFs in California is ‘major policy change’
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 03, 2021
Skilled nursing facilities in California will face much higher fines for not complying with transfer discharge hearing decisions under a new bill signed into law last week by Gov. Gaivin Newsom (D).
Price of proposed nursing home staffing mandate? Try $11.3B a year, new AHCA report finds
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 16, 2022
The American Health Care Association Thursday released an updated report from accounting and consulting firm CliftonLarsonAllen LLP detailing the costs of a potential federal staffing mandate for America’s...
Healthcare REIT ratings expected to hold despite staffing mandate, Fitch says
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 22, 2023
Real estate investment trusts that own skilled nursing facilities are not likely to see their ratings affected by a minimum staffing rule that will affect most nursing homes across the country within the...
SNFs face ‘increased and increasingly hostile’ government scrutiny, attorneys say
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 06, 2024
The increased scrutiny facing nursing home providers since the COVID-19 pandemic includes “overall increased and increasingly sort of hostile approach by surveyors in the quality-of-care area,” according...
‘Drive to 25’ campaign seeks $25 an hour wage for CNAs in nursing homes
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 03, 2022
Certified nursing assistants in nursing homes make too little money and deserve to earn a living wage. That’s according to the California Association of Health Facilities, the force behind the “Drive...